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Building a basic Jamstack webmail client with Vue 3

Vue 3 is going to be released soon and I wanted to see how easy it is to create the simples possible useful application with it. It turns out it's pretty easy with vue-cli and serverless tools! Here I share my findings.

Automate database backups with AWS Fargate, S3 and CDK

I love how Serverless enables simple solutions to common DevOps tasks: in this article I describe one simple way to automate MongoDB database backups using AWS Fargate, S3, and CDK.

Setup free WHOIS monitoring to avoid unwanted domain expirations with Serverless on AWS

A few days ago I forgot to renew one of my registered Internet domains which I believed was set to auto-renew and received a few alerts when affected services started to fail. I hence took the chance to setup a simple and free monitoring solution to avoid incurring again in this same problem once and for all. Powered by AWS CDK, Python and WhoisXML

Micro Blog

"It could be argued that China’s dominance of the rare earth market is less about geology and far more about the country’s willingness to take an environmental hit that other nations shy away from."

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-dystopian-lake-filled-by-the-world-s-tech-lust

New blog post:

#serverless #jamstack #vue #mail #frontend

https://a.l3x.in/blog/serverless-web-client-with-vue-cli/

"And that girl with no name, over there in Braavos."

Oh boy, only the gods know how much I'm looking forward news about that "no one" over there.

https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2020/08/15/back-in-westeros/

New blog post:

I love how Serverless enables simple solutions to common DevOps tasks: in this article I describe one simple way to automate MongoDB database backups using AWS Fargate, S3, and CDK.

https://a.l3x.in/blog/mongodb-backups-with-aws-cdk/